The bill to amend the old rent law for non-residential purposes tops the house of representatives’ plenary sessions next week
The draft amendment of the old rent law aims to maintain the economic and social stability of Egyptian society. By regulating the implementation of the Supreme Constitutional Court’s ruling to evacuate places rented to legal persons for use for non-residential purposes
The law aims to give the legal persons concerned with this law no more than five years from the date of this law to reconcile their situation.
It aims to achieve a temporary balance between the parties to the rental relationship – concerned with this law – by determining the rental value five times the legal value in force.
The last legal value due under this law increases annually and periodically by 15% over the next 4 years.
In addition to regulating judicial and legal proceedings relating to the evacuation of the leased place the day after the end of the maximum period set out by law (5 years) in the event that the tenant refrains from doing so
Article 1. That article specified the scope of the validity of the bill, which was limited to places leased to persons who were legal for non-residential purposes, whose contracts were concluded in accordance with the provisions of Digital Laws 49 of 1977 concerning the rental and sale of premises and the organization of the relationship between the lessor and the tenant, and 136 of 1981 in relation to certain provisions on the rental and sale of places and the organization of the relationship between the lessor and the tenant, unless otherwise consensual.
Article 2. This article specified a period of not more than 5 years from the date of the act’s introduction of the eviction of places rented to persons who are considered to be for non-residential purposes in accordance with the provisions of the above-mentioned laws in the previous clause.
Article 3. This article is to determine the rental value of the places specified in the scope of the act’s validity, so that 5 times the legal value in force, is increased annually and periodically by the last legal value due under this Act by 15% over the next 4 years.
Article 4. This article obliged the tenant to vacate the leased place and return it to the landlord or the lessor, as the circumstances may be, the day after the expiry of the period set out in article (2) of the Act (which does not exceed 5 years), as well as to authorize both the owner and the lessor, as the circumstances may be, in the event that the tenant refrains from eviction, to ask the court’s time judge in her district to expel the person who abstains from eviction, without prejudice to the right to compensation if he or she has an obligation.
Article 5. The publication article that set the date of the act as of the day after its publication in the Official Gazette